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'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations' [76r] (157/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (268 folios). It was created in 24 Oct 1911-26 Dec 1912. It was written in English, French and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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(Heceivec! wit.. Foreign Department endorsement, No.10^4
E.A. dated 17th May 19IP.) 1
(B)
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA.
COI'TFIETNTI \L.
(11466) ' (HarCh 18 ^
ir.nu. Section
No. 1.
Sir G. Lowther to Sir Edward G re y,„ (Received March
M
Constantinople, March 1?,191 0 .
Sir,
From information which has reached me recently from Hia
Majesty^s Consul-General at Baghdad, I gather that the Germans
in that city are somewhat divided in their views as to the
arrangements made for the transport thither of material, *0.,
for constructive work on the Baghdad Railway. On the one hand
Meissner
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
seems anxious to phtain the cherpest and most
efficient transport available, while M, Endruchs, the local
representative of the Deutsche Bank, is endeavouring to attain
the end in view solely "by increasing the number of the Turkish
steamers, in the ultimate hope of bringing the Turkish admi
nistration under German influence or control.
Lynch 1 s agent at Baghdad was in hopes of forming a
special separate flotilla, for the carriage of material, to
be owned partly by the Turks, partly by Messrs Lynch, and,
perhaps, also partly b^ the railway company, the present fleets
of the former remaining independent as before; but there seems
great doubt as to whether such a combination could eve'"' be
estab j .led. The Deutsche Bank a,re evidently anxious to
come to some arrangement with the-Turkish administration,
while the Turkish Government are, ag far as I have been able
to ascertain, altogether opposed to any arrangement being
with Messrs Lynch for the carriage of the railway material.
I have, etc.
Sd/- Gerard Lowther.
(Copy sent informally to the Army De-oartment for trans-
miss Iron to the Division of the Chief of tha otaff J .
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, and memorandums pertaining to Anglo-Turkish negotiations brought on by the Baghdad Railway and particularly the extension to Basra. Correspondents include: Percy Cox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, William Shakespear, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kuwait, Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Louis Mallet, Assistant Under-secretary of State for Near and Middle Eastern Affairs, Charles Marling, British Ambassador to Persia, Gerard Lowther, British Ambassador to Constantinople, George Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia, Admiral Edmond Slade, the Board of Trade, the Government of India, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , and several private companies, including Trans-Atlantic Trust Company, Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Ottoman Bank, and Imperial Persian Bank.
The form of the negotiations was a series of memorandums containing proposals and counter-proposals. The issues and subjects discussed are:
- ownership and control of the line;
- custom duty increases in the region;
- navigation of the Shatt al-Arab, including the establishment of a commission to oversee this;
- transport of railway materials by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers;
- delimitation of the Turkish-Persian border;
- status and territorial limit of Kuwait;
- other Gulf matters, including the statuses of Bahrain and Qatar, the suppression of arms traffic, piracy, and slavery, and the protection of pearl fisheries.
Folios 261-262 are a map showing the proposed territorial limits of Kuwait.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (268 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically. At the beginning (ff. 3-4) is a subject index, in no particular order but grouped under several broad headings. The numbers refer to folio numbers from the secondary, earlier sequence.
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Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers positioned in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . There are two earlier foliation systems running through parts of the volume. The first uses uncircled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, and the top-left corner of verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. pages. This foliation system numbers pages if they have content on them, which is the case for all rectos and some versos. This foliation system appears intermittently through most of the volume. The other foliation system uses circled blue pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, and appears from folios 5 to 42. Numerous printed materials contained in the volume have their own internal pagination systems. The following foliation irregularities occur: 1a, 34a, 51B, 219B, 250B.
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- 'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations'
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- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 2r:5v, 16r:22v, 24r:34v, 34ar:34av, 35r:42v, 44r:49v, 51r:51v, 51br:51bv, 52r:54v, 56r:63v, 66r:67v, 72r:112r, 113r:134v, 136r:168v, 170r:182v, 184r:204r, 205v:213v, 215v, 219br:219bv, 222r:225v, 227r:236v, 238r:250v, 250br:250bv, 251r:261v, 262v:264v, back-i, back
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